thing captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.-Ib.

332.

There would be few enterprises of great labour or hazard undertaken, if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages which we persuade ourselves to expect from them.-Ib.

333.

Sometimes there are living beings in nature as beautiful as in romance. Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes, sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.—Austin.

334.

Pride, though it cannot prevent the holy affections of nature from being felt, may prevent them from being shown.-Ib.

335.

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self-esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected, without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.-Johnson.

336.

If we would have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a multitude of tyrants.

337.

He that is pleased with himself, easily imagines he shall please others.—Ib.

338.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority. Men please themselves with imagining that they have nade a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.-Ib.

339.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. -Ib.

340.

To get a name can happen but to few.-A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. —1b.

341.

All change is of itself an evil, which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage.—Ib.

342.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied, must admit those of fancy.—Ib.

343.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions -Every step which he advances, brings something within his view, which he did not see before, and which as soon as he sees it, he begins to want. When necessity ends, curiosity begins, and no sooner

are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.-Ib.

344.

The pain of miscarriage is naturally proportionate to the desire of excellence; and therefore, till men are hardened by long familiarity with reproach, or have attained by frequent struggles, the art of suppressing their emotions, diffidence is found the insuperable associate of understanding.—Ib.

345.

We do not so often disappoint others as ourselves, as we not only think more highly than others of our own abilities, but allow ourselves to form hopes which we never communicate, and please our thoughts with enployments which none ever will allot us, and with elevations to which we are never expected to rise.-Ib.

346.

He that knows himself despised, will always be envious; and still more envious and malevolent, if he is condemned to live in the presence of those who despise him.—Ib.

347.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.-Ib.

348.

To raise esteem, we must benefit others: to procure love, we must please them.—Ib.

349.

He that is loudly praised will be clamorously censured. He that rises hastily into fame, will be in danger of sinking suddenly into oblivion.-Ib.

350.

Great powers cannot be exerted but when great emergencies make them necessary. Great exigencies can happen but seldom, and therefore those qualities which have a claim for the veneration of mankind, lie hid, for the most part, like subterranean treasures, over which the foot passes as on common ground, till necessity breaks open the golden cavern. -Ib.

351.

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour.-Ib.

352.

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The great source of pleasure is variety. mity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect, and when expectation is disappointed, or gratified, we want to be again expecting.-16.

353.

As many more can discover that a man is richer than themselves, superiority of understanding is not so readily acknowledged, as that of fortune; nor is that haughtiness, which the consciousness of great abilities incites, borne with the same submission as the tyranny of affluence.-Ib.

354.

That which is to be loved long, is to be loved with reason rather than passion.—Ib.

355.

A man seldom affects to despise the world, unless the world is regardless of him.-J. Bartlett.

356.

Men had much rather be censured for want of morals, than want of understanding.-Ib.

357.

The man who laughs at his own foibles, ever does it to prevent the ridicule of others.—Ib.

358.

Ceremony was always the companion of weak minds; it is a plant that will never grow in a strong soil.-Ib.

359.

Sincerity does not consist in speaking your mind on all occasions, but in doing it when silence would be censurable, and falsehood inexcusable.-Ib.

360.

The desire of appearing to be persons of ability, often prevents our being so.-Rochefoucault.

361.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.-Ib.

362.

Those great actions whose lustre dazzles us, are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion.-Ib.

363.

Men boast of their great actions; but they are oftener the effect of chance than design.—Ib.